Amparo-Hernandez

United States v. Amparo-Hernandez

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167 F. App'x 608
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitFebruary 16, 2006No. 05-50327California276 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Jose Luis Amparo-Hernandez appeals the sentence imposed following his guilty plea conviction for deported alien found in the United States, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 .

Amparo-Hernandez contends that the district court violated his constitutional rights in enhancing his sentence under 8 U.S.C. § 1326 (b) and § 2L1.2(b)(l)(A)(i) of the advisory Sentencing Guidelines based on a prior criminal conviction that was neither proved beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury nor admitted as part of the guilty plea and that Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 , 118 S.Ct. 1219 , 140 L.Ed.2d 350 (1998), is no longer good law. This contention is foreclosed by this Court’s case law. See United States v. Delaney, 427 F.3d 1224 1226 (9th Cir.2005) (holding that the fact of a prior conviction for sentencing purposes need not be proved to a jury or admitted by defendant to satisfy the Sixth Amendment); United States v. Moreno-Hemandez, 419 F.3d 906 , 914 n. 8 (9th Cir.2005) (explaining that a district judge’s enhancement of a sentence, based on the fact of a prior conviction under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2, does not raise any Sixth Amendment problems); United States v. Weiland,…

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